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Episode 165: True power does not exist outside of us. You are your own power!

Today I’ll be talking with Diane Halfman, who among other things is a former Seattle police officer and a current consultant, trainer and podcaster herself. This is going to be a very interesting conversation in which we’ll unpack some great advice from Diane that she learned in policing and brought over to the private sector….

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Episode 164: The universe stepped in and said: “Not Today!”

Sometimes all the cosmic tumblers in the universe align and something magical happens.  And sometimes that something magical is a person’s life being saved, or your own life being saved. Today you’re going to hear how a number of things happened, one right after another to save Charlene Madden’s life, and then you’re going to hear…

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Episode 163: It can happen to anyone, even you!

When you become a first responder you don’t know how you’ll react in a real situation until it happens.  And for the most part, first responders do not get very much training to handle what they’ll experience, if any at all. So that means that the great majority of first responders are not prepared for the…

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Episode 162: Our 2nd year anniversary podcast!

Hello everyone.  Just a short and sweet podcast to thank everyone for listening for the past two years and hopefully for listening to us over the next year and beyond.

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Episode 161: Healing post traumatic stress and other occupational stress injuries: A method

Today’s guest is the Director of Sales and Affiliate Marketing for the Inspired Performance Institute. Mark Aylward is part of a team that is dedicated to helping people heal from post traumatic stress and other OSI’s. We’re going to start with finding out more about Mark and his story and we’re going to end with finding…

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Episode 160: Mindset, awareness, humility and courage

About three months ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on The Femininja Project podcast. The host is Cheryl Ilov who was my guest on episode 145 of our podcast. Cheryl is a great host and I thought that I would publish this episode for your listening pleasure. You might find out more…

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Episode 159: Replay: Paramedicine, post traumatic stress and Everesting!

Derek Davis was a 16 year paramedic who has been affected by post traumatic stress.  Join us to hear about Derek’s resiliency plan and the innovative program he went through at Project Trauma Support.  And, we talk about how his wife of 15 years “pulls the ripcord” to let Derek know that he needs take…

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Episode 158: Replay: Healing from trauma permanently?

Dr Wood is the founder of the Inspired Performance Institute and is the author of two books about eliminating your trauma from your life entirely! I know so many people who’ve been traumatized in their lives and so many of them go from treatment modality to modality searching for a way to make the pain go away….

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Episode 157: Replay: Silence strengthens the stigma: Rob Leathen

Rob Leathen is a career firefighter of 28 years.  In 2019 Rob was diagnosed with severe Post Traumatic Stress and severe depression and has been off work since April of 2019. One of the things that Rob told me in one of our conversations is that he was currently in the process of working on his…

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Episode 156: Replay: Chief Michael Seth – A leader who cares!

Fire Chief Michael Seth has been open and honest about his mental health challenges because he sees this as a way to help other first responders come forward to ask for, or to seek help. We talk about how the traumatic calls that Michael experienced on the job manifested as post traumatic stress. We also…

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